Teacher Training Somewhere over the last ten years, I started getting scared. Scared of trying anything new. Where did my sense of fearlessness go? Now granted, I’ve tried a bunch of new things during that time like Bikram Yoga, going to beauty school, getting my esthetician license, starting an esthetician blog, quit bartending to work […]
My goal for this week was to finish taking the rest of my CorePower Yoga classes to meet my Hot Power Fusion Teacher Training requirement. With some careful planning, lots of preparation and a fair amount of discipline, I reached my goal by Saturday morning. To meet my goal this week, it meant I had […]
Teacher Training It’s becoming apparent that no one wants to do hot yoga in Seattle when it’s warm and sunny outside. I didn’t expect many people to be in tonight’s Hot Power Fusion class. Turns out, there were only three of us taking the class, four if you include the teacher. Tonight’s Hot Power Fusion class […]
Teacher Training I decided to stick around for Annalee’s Hot Power Fusion 5:30 class after we finished with our Yoga Teacher Training Group Session today. The wind outside was still howling and I was in no rush to drive home in it. Besides, one of my favorite things to do on a cold, rainy day/night […]
Teacher Training Countless hours of preparation – attending training classes after work, memorizing cues, practice teaching, studying postures and learning and practicing giving hands-on adjustments during postures – all came to a head for me on Monday night. I auditioned to teach Hot Power Fusion at CorePower Yoga. I feel like so much was built […]
Out of all the yoga teacher trainings I’ve done over the last couple of years, Yoga Sculpt teacher training at Corepower Yoga has been my favorite teacher training so far. This is quite a statement for me because when I started my first yoga teacher training, I was obsessed with Bikram Yoga. After my initial […]
Teacher Training As part of the 60-yoga class requirement for teacher training at CorePower Yoga, two of those classes have to be Hot Power Fusion classes I observe. When deciding on who’s Hot Power Fusion classes I wanted to observe, I decided to go with the trainers themselves – Sunny and Jill. I already observed […]
I was afraid of a few things on trail, but hitchhiking was never one of them. Before hiking the PCT, I had never hitchhiked before. Sticking my thumb out and asking a complete stranger for a ride into or out of town was something very new to me. I guess the reason why hitchhiking never […]
Taking one Bikram Yoga class each day for 30 days is amazing on so many levels. Most people associate a 30 day challenge with wanting to lose weight. Bikram Choudhury, founder and creator of the Bikram Yoga series and sequence says, “Give me 30 days, I’ll change your body…” It’s true. Taking a Bikram Yoga […]
Inspiration I decided to take my first Bikram Yoga class over five years ago because a friend of mine had told me what a crazy good workout it was and that I’d probably lose a lot of weight, fast, Naturally, I was curious and wanted to check out a class for myself. I had no idea […]
Bikram Yoga, Yoga FAQs Those who are familiar with the practice know what Bikram Yoga is, but might not know who he is. Here’s a fun fact: Yes, there is an actual man behind the “Bikram” name. Bikram Choudhury is the man who developed the Bikram Yoga Sequence, a form of hot yoga consisting of 26 Hatha Yoga […]
An Old School PCT Blaze I remember the first time I heard thru-hiking terms. I had just started planning my own thru-hike along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and was sitting in the audience, waiting to listen to a thru-hiker talk about how she hiked the PCT. A few moments before the event was set […]
Featured One of my FAVORITE sections of the entire PCT… Atlas Guides aka Guthook app is doing a new feature on their blog called, My Trail Story. A couple of weeks ago, Guthook reached out to me and asked if I’d like to be featured. Of course I said yes. Anytime I get to talk […]
Bikram Yoga When I think back to when I took my very first Bikram Yoga class back in 2010, I remember practicing in an uncomfortably crowded, carpeted studio in San Francisco as I sweated my way through class wearing cotton tank tops and cotton running shorts, all the way in the back row, in the […]